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This Charleston Harbor garrison endured 34 hours of bombardment before surrendering in April 1861 |
Fort Sumter
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A person's navel marks the spot where this cord was attached during development in the womb |
the umbilical cord
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Some say it wasn't evils that she let escape from the box, but the blessings of the gods |
Pandora
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This British dependency lies only about 90 miles southeast of Canton |
Hong Kong
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Coleridge-Taylor's cantata "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" is based on a poem by this author |
Longfellow
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Vater is this person, relatively speaking |
your father
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This highest U.S. decoration for valor was first authorized for naval enlisted men in 1861 |
the Congressional Medal of Honor
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It's the baglike organ that contains a cow's mammary glands |
udder
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The Matronalia, a festival celebrated on March 1, honored this supreme Roman goddess |
Juno
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The reign of this country's Taira Dynasty ended in 1183 when Emperor Antoku died in a sea battle |
(Gordon: What is China?)
Japan
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Christopher Fry wrote the libretto for the 1978 opera "Paradise Lost", based on a 1667 poem by this man |
Milton
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This item used in playing billiards is der billardstock |
the cue
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The Southern victory at the first battle of this, July 21, 1861, dashed Union hopes of a 90-day war |
Bull Run (Manassas)
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Adipose tissue beneath the skin is made of this |
fat
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Vesta's Greek counterpart, this goddess of the hearth was the firstborn child of Cronus & Rhea |
Hestia
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At 27,923 feet, Lhotse is the third highest peak in this mountain range |
the Himalayas
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The spoken words in Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon" are taken from an anti-Napoleon poem by this lord |
Byron
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If you don't know what a worterbuch is, you might look it up in das worterbuch |
a dictionary
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This Union general's nickname, Fighting Joe, came from a series of press dispatches |
General Hooker
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It's thhe middle region of the body of an insect, or the chest region in mammals |
the thorax
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She was Pyramus' beloved |
Thisbe
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The Nan, the Ping, the Wang & the Yom Rivers unite to form this country's Chao Phraya River |
Thailand
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In the 1830s this Hungarian composed a piano sonata called "After a Reading of Dante" |
Liszt
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If you're strapped for cash, ask, "Nehmen sie kreditkarten?" which means this |
Do you take credit cards?
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With little to do as Lincoln's VP, this man enlisted in the Maine Coast Guard while in office |
(Mark: Who is Andrew Johnson?)
Hannibal Hamlin
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When a male & female gamete fuse, they form one of these cells that develops into the embryo |
the zygote
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These maidens included the oreads of the mountains & the nereids of the sea |
nymphs
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Sarawak & Sabah, regions of this country, cover most of northern Borneo |
(Gordon: What is Indonesia?)
Malaysia
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Prokofiev's powerful opera "The Gambler" is an adaptation of a novel by this 19th century Russian |
Dostoyevsky
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Die bademutze is this type of cap |
bathing
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